By one man, sin introduced to the world, and by one mistake alone, all creation fall under the wrath of God.
No peace offering will truly redempt human from the cost of sin, as we already sinned since we were conceived in our mother's womb, so none will be spared from the cost of Adam's sin.
The ancient practice of burnt offerings, were a vain effort, as no amount of lambs or bulls, or any living animal, can truly beat the weight of a human misdeeds.
Those practice of ancient Jews which adopted and succeeded by the Moslems, were only a mere animal slaughter that in nature, pale in comparison and were inadequate for substituting the price of human sins.
The Bible boldly explain that salvation only found in Christ, and through Christ alone.
What better explanation needed then? If a claim is made in vain, that they in nature were only a false claim made by men, then they were a message not worth of sharing.
But for almost 2.000 years, multiple people before us, passed this message of promise, a good news about glimpses of salvation, even under multitude of persecutions more often than not, and not little, has paid the price of their own life just to ensure this very message survived through the test of time.
Of that even Peter, the apostle of Jesus, commented that those people, as an example of faith, who much among them, suffered tortures and even to the cost of their life, of them, the world is not worthy of (Hebrew 11:38).
But it is true, that under the heaven, there is no other name is given, of which, salvation is given, but through Jesus Christ of Nazareth (Acts. 4:12).
If salvation is already explained blatantly, through Jesus alone, and only through Jesus alone.
Then it surely be the truth, is men refused this, that wrath if God surely still upon their own head.
In ancient days, God give His Law through Moses, and those Law, is the hallmark of what is wrong in the eyes of God, and the antithesis of those is what is right and just according to God.
The Torah, is rather universal. Even to people across the world in ancient time, know not to steal, not to kill, not to lie, not to fornicate blindly, not to lust, and so on and so forth, despite no Moses ever came to them and warn them about God's Law.
The Torah is universal, and engraved in man's heart. We know that those things, unexplained by nature, without any aid from any agent to tell us about it, but we know that they were wrong to do.
And thus, God's Law is introduced to human conscience, and by them alone, we are under the judgment of God, if we sinned against it.
Jesus explained later on, that whomever saw a woman and lust in his heart, they already did the fornication inside their mind and heart.
If a person hate their brethren, by that alone, they already 'killed' their brethren within their mind.
Those alone is enough to put all of us to doom, since no men on earth, in the past, present and even future is free from hate, or lust, even once is enough to bring us under judgement.
Of that were to be true, then, we all are going to hell for sure, no matter what, even if we believe in Jesus or not in the first place.
That standard alone is the undoing of men.
Men, by nature, is ignorant and more often than not, willingly choose to be ignorant.
Imagine an ostrich, that big flightless bird, that tend to hide their head inside a hole when they fled in danger.
Plunging one's head into a hole of not believing won't make the imminent danger cease to exist.
And even more, we human, aren't ostrich. But sadly, we choose to be an ostrich more often than not, willingly, and consciously choose to be.
Even Christians, those who diligently sat on the church bench every single week without any miss, sometimes, are a legalistic ignorant ostrich in nature.
Just by praying before and after bed, or praying before and after having a meal, or diligently paying tithe and went to church isn't enough for us to salvation.
No due diligence of moral good is sufficient for a human to safe themselves with a salvation ticket.
No abstaining from pleasure and any mental discipline and moral just will be good enough for a human to make them entitled for salvation.
And by that standard alone, all religions including Christianity, will be not good enough for Heaven and in this matter of fact, salvation.
Salvation is given through faith, faith in Christ, in Jesus, who is human by nature, and the same time, is also God in nature, God incarnated into a human flesh, to lived a perfect life, and died unjustly under gruesome way possible to bare the wrath of God, and by that, ammending justice for the cost of sin, quenching God's wrath upon man, and bridging the once disconnected path for man and God, making God accepted human once again before Him.
And through that grand plan of salvation, God willingly forgive men from their sins, and pasted Christ righteousness and perfect obedience on them, which is done through faith alone.
But my question raised from this point.
Will this alone enough?
For short and final answer, yes! Faith alone is suffice, faith in Christ alone is what dawned salvation upon men.
But life continues on and on, we are not some death row execution candidates. We still lived our life day by day after our momentous turning point of believe.
And life and tumultuous temptations came in barrages and multitude of tides.
There will be time we're going to feel overwhelmed by those momentum of circumstances, but there will also be time we felt like we soar through open heaven.
And through that, simple faith is prone to be put under test. Faith is enough, but faith need to be renewed and fed daily, with promises of God.
That is a two-part miracle that need to occurs daily in any believer daily life.
God renewed our heart daily, and we need to diligently obeying God through seeking Him through His Words.
Read your Bible!
God promises is rich in assurances. He renewed your heart when you read his Words of promise.
He promise to strengthen out faith, and He promised an intimate relationship with Him through the communion of saints, all believer saved from the world, gathered from all around, and believed under the name of Jesus, and together diligently seek God's face with fear of God.
But those thing wouldn't be possible if nobody read their Bible.
Some read them just for the sake of reading them, but nothing happened.
Some read them, and think that this book is a series of fictional stories compiled from many authors through times with the theme of translating a mythology story from other cultures into Jewish background.
Many interpretation can be made from a Bible reading.
But true Bible reading, required the second half of miracle. God's renewal of heart and mind.
Without the later part, a Bible reading is just literature reading. Going through one eyes, entering the brain, and soon to be forgotten.
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I am a firm believer of God's active part in the act of a person's salvation.
If faith is a conscious act of that person being saved and no partaking contribution from God, then a person can also choose to annul their faith.
From my previous posts alone I hinted time and time again, that a black, pitch-black paper, had no traces of white in it's page. So, no right choice will ever be produced from a completely fallen heart, no perfect act will be ever produced by a completely and utterly corrupted mind.
So is the act of believe and a conscious act of choosing to believe in Christ promises of salvation.
That is utterly impossible.
There will never be a God obeying choices in the first place ever, within a person's heart if not for God to put it there in the first place.
Moral absolute is God, and no human will ever reach a morality good enough, and nor will they ever be able to perfectly theoretize them with their blemished morality.
No human will be able to come to God out of their own just and good morality.
It is impossible to believe in Christ, and even more, to have faith, that this promises of salvation through and in Jesus, to be the Truth, without God in the first place, took part in making our blank and pitch-black heart and mind to enable us to believe in what He said.
Faith is the first and biggest miracle of all following miracles.
There, that's the path of liberation that Siddhartha Gautama seek throughout his life, only to be confused by his own delusions of reincarnation and so called dharma.
That's the path of salvation that some nobody claimed to be a prophet claim to re-affirm, only to be lost in his lust for wealth and sensual pleasures. The man that has confused the world by establishing a new religion out of his delusions, and has scattered a third of the world for this past 1400 years.
That's the path of salvation that withstood the test of time, only to be teased and jeered as idiocy by the people of science nowadays, and the utmost faith barraged by critics from people who labelled themselves as 'atheist'
If the faith in Jesus is wrong, nobody would bother to find reasons to denied their claims, nor will be anybody pick any bones with the claim about Jesus as the Way as false or lies.
But the exact opposite roll into play for millennias already. Many tried to testify against the faith in Jesus. They come and go throughout generations.
Even some rises from within the congregation of believers. But here we are, people still believe in Jesus. If that faith is wrong, that God isn't revealing Himself through Jesus and the path of salvation is not found in Jesus. Then surely, God will condemn the faith in Jesus to oblivion.
But, people converting to have faith in Jesus, and being renewed from their wicked heart, for generations already. And many, find their best interest in God ever since they come to believe in Jesus.
If that is false, then surely all those that follow this path will be miserable at the end of time. But, if this turns out to be the Truth, then, behold, all creation is put under judgement and becoming a bane to themselves because there is Light amongst them, yet they failed to believe in Him.
And throughout all of this bantering arguments, one thing will be for sure.
God make a person believe in Jesus, and at the same instance, refuse to make others to believe, just like how God harden the heart of Pharaoh when Moses appealed before him in his court.
God is glorifying Himself by making some believe in His claim of salvation, while to other, He let them died in unbelief.
That is still just, and irrefutably Just before God's standard, which some failed to grasp, because we are not God, and we never would be.
God isn't some narcissistic megalomaniac that herald Himself on a pedestal and forcing the world to believe in Him through some series of torture, nor God wickedly saved only a glimpses of people and let the rest of the pack doomed to oblivion for eternity.
The logic need to be reversed.
God, created man, and God gives man choices, that is to obey or to ate from the fruit of knowledge.
God created human in His image. We are created according to His image, and also nature. We are a free being ever since our creation, and God respect that freedom, by giving us a choice. To eat or to obey.
But human fallen to temptation, they were tempted by greed, and they greed for more. They wanted to be God, just like how their tempter first greed about and fallen from God's glory.
And man, through a temptation of soothe promises from Satan, choosed to ate from the very fruit of Knowledge. Man out of their own heart, craved for knowledge and to be 'like' God.
Even since the garden of Eden, we are already faulty, by having desires to be like God, the very temptation that caused the fall of Satan. Our pride and greed is the very undoing of us.
And through that very act of rebellion, God exalted Christ, by proving us human as faulty, God exalted Jesus, through the work of salvation.
And that is, Truth
That very truth is what drawn the irk of mankind.
Most failed to see it like how God sees it and claimed God as evil.
Some turned bitter and choose to ignore the calling of salvation.
And some, sees the news of salvation as foolishness and ridiculed it as a laughing matter.
Human reject God from the first place, and hence no sane argument will be good enough to not to justify the later refusal of men by God.
And that's the Truth about salvation.
The sweet promise of salvation, and yet the bitter and sad Truth hidden behind the fall of humanity, where we failed to obey God, and continuously failed by sinning even more.
There is no claim can I make to soothes you to believe in what I claimed to be the Truth, as I am not God, I can't enforce faith in you and instill a renewed heart to enable you to believe.
But if you seek God wholeheartedly, He is also faithful, and He will answer your plea.
If God revealed Himself to you and enabled you to believe, than you are my brothers and sisters.
And I hoped that's to be the case for you, my friends and dear fella.
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